The Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., former environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine activist, as secretary of health and human services in a 52-48 vote.

In a near party-line vote, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as the Trump administration's Health and Human Services secretary on Thursday morning. He was sworn in later in the afternoon.

In Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s first interview as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, he made multiple incorrect or misleading statements, including about seed oils, an abortion drug and the notion that the U.

The new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, is on a mission to "Make America Healthy Again," and he has ideas. He promises to look at everything from vaccines to medications and processed food.

Kennedy tried to hold out an olive branch to the researchers during his introductory remarks and pledged transparency.